Part-time Brooklynite to release ‘Surrendering Oz’ — ‘Oz’ with a feminist twist
Brooklyn BookBeat
Part-time Brooklynite Bonnie Friedman will release her newest work, “Surrendering Oz: A Life in Essays,” on Nov. 10 at BookCourt at 7 p.m. with a reading, interactive audience Q&A and book signing event.
“Surrendering Oz” (Etruscan Press) focuses on a Jewish girl from the Bronx who works as a proofreader for “The Guinness Book of World Records” as she is “emotionally awakened.”
The book is described as an autobiography of sorts, as Friedman wrote the essays over several years, later realizing that each essay had connected into something bigger.
“[The essays] concern how one learns to think for oneself; how one gains possession over one’s own life,” Friedman said, in an article published in Lilith. “Once I saw that, I believed I might have a book.”